Aywas Scavenger Hunt 2012 Tasks

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1. Draw every single site pet on one canvas. They have to be at least 100x100 pixels large each, and must be a minimum of inked and base colored. Tiny details need not be added; it simply has to be distinguishable as being the pet.
point 100

2. Create an SCC base that is free to use and contains no rules.
point 15

3. Draw a custom desktop background for Aywas.
point 10

4. Design an old school virtual pet style game in Adobe Flash for Aywas where you have to feed, clean, and look after a growing Melo.
point 25

5. Cut out a pet from the Mountains and photograph the piece of paper in front of a skyline of real life mountains.
point 10

6. Cut out a pet from the Bridge and photograph the piece of paper in front of a real life bridge.
point 10

7. Cut out a pet from the Desert and photograph the piece of paper in front of a real life desert.
point 10

8. Cut out a pet from the East River and photograph the piece of paper in front of a real river.
point 10

9. Cut out a pet from the Scrublands and photograph the piece of paper in front of a real scrubland/savannah.
point 10

10. Cut out a pet from the Fissures and photograph the piece of paper in front of a real life volcano.
point 10

11. Cut out a pet from the Fields and photograph the piece of paper in front of a real life field.
point 10

12. Cut out a pet from the West River and photograph the piece of paper outside the mouth of a real life cave.
point 10

13. Cut out a pet from the Rainforest and photograph the piece of paper in front of a real rainforest.
point 10

14. Cut out a pet from the Arctic and photograph the piece of paper in front of a real tundra.
point 10

15. Design a deck of Tarot cards that is based off Aywas pets. Each card must be custom drawn, but the frame itself can be reused. There must be 78 unique cards. The best entry may be made into an Aywas tarot card set...
point 100

16. Write ten 500-word Aywas related stories in non-English languages, where each story is in a different language, and not employing Google Translate or any cheating like that.
point 100

17. Create a YouTube video where you use sign language to sign the names of each pet genus.
point 15

18. Create a book cover for a collection of Aywas-related scientific essays.
point 15

19. Create a magazine cover for a magazine called "Explorers Monthly" without using any official images.
point 15

20. Sketch out ten new pet genuses designed after home objects (like appliances, silverware, etc.).
point 15

21. Create a five-page screen play set in real life with your team members as characters where Aywas has just shut down.
point 15

22. Bake a batch of Lesser Breeding Coin cookies (that are decorated with frosting for color), then spell out "Frey" with them.
point 15

23. Spell out all of the Aywas Staff members' names with coffee beans (after all, caffeine is necessary...)
point 15

24. Photograph an Aywas plush (either home made or official) at a famous landmark outside of the US or Canada.
point 20

25. Paint an official Melo figurine to look like another of your team member's customs.
point 10

26. Write a 50-page scientific paper (with fake sources) about how Lunarises are born from stars.
point 25

27. Create a food sculpture of the Fissures region using chili for the lava.
point 15

28. Design an iPhone application that is somehow based on Aywas and does not require any login.
point 50

30. Create a DVD cover for an Aywas movie, and place it on a DVD case. Photograph it next to some other movies.
point 20

31. Create a cover for an Aywas game on a video game system, as if it were real.
point 20

32. Design a propaganda newsletter that's a minimum of five pages long with articles and pictures set in Ay that is against people harvesting pets in the wild.
point 25

33. Spell the names of three Aywas genuses using lima beans.
point 10

34. Custom create an Aywas bobblehead of a pet from vinyl.
point 15

35. Using strips of connected paper snowflakes, cut out the word Aywas.
point 5

36. Film a five minute video where you are exploring a real life desert, narrating it like you are in the Aywas desert.
point 25

37. Create five different Aywas-related foods and film yourself having a picnic with them at a picnic table.
point 15

38. Draw a full color, full body picture of a custom pet from another team.
point 15

39. Do a custom design trade with another team, where every member of the team needs to make a design, regardless of quality.
point 10

40. Make a painted sculpture of a Neura.
point 25

41. Make a Gael out of bananas.
point 10

42. Make an Insi out of peanut shells.
point 10

43. Make a Melo out of dominos.
point 10

44. Make a Phanto out of horror books.
point 10

45. Make a Reve out of feathers.
point 10

46. Make a Soli out of shed snake skin.
point 10

47. Make a Vyne out of red roses.
point 10

48. Make Rogr out of hematite stones.
point 10

49. Make a Lacer out of sand.
point 10

50. Make a Maki out of plush toys.
point 10

51. Make an Oske out of hairballs.
point 10

52. Make a Chromo out of discarded snail shells.
point 10

53. Go to the zoo and photograph a minimum of fifty animals that also show up on Aywas as colorations. Put them together in a powerpoint presentation with a picture of the actual Aywas pet beside it.
point 50

54. Spell "Aywas" by walking in the snow.
point 20

55. Have a complete set of site Melos.
point 25

56. Have a complete set of site Insis.
point 20

57. Have a complete set of site Solis.
point 20

58. Photograph a printed picture of a Ball Python Soli next to a real life Blue or Black Eyed Leucistic Ball Python.
point 25

59. Photograph a printed out picture of a Lacer next to a Crested Gecko.
point 10

60. Photograph a picture of a Melo next to a Calico cat.
point 5

61. Photograph a picture of a Chiro next to a real life bat.
point 5

62. Photograph a picture of an Arak next to a real life tarantula.
point 5

63. Create a set of caveman drawings depicting ten scenes from daily life in Ara of native peoples living in Ara and encountering various pet species.
point 15

64. Make a ten page sketch comic about an explorer who is carried off by an Opterix and taken to the Opterix's nest to be fed to its hatchlings, and how that explorer escapes.
point 10

65. Make a full colored, inked comic a minimum of ten pages long that depicts the life of a pack of Garu.
point 50

66. Draw a fully colored picture of a Kyre equipped with armor and ready to go to war.
point 20

67. Write a stream of consciousness from the point of view of a person being attacked by a Manticore, 100 words.
point 5

68. Write a series of short journal entries about a person stalking a Cipula, that ends in that person being eaten by the plant end of the pet.
point 10

69. Draw a medieval-style picture of a person combatting a deadly Lerna.
point 20

70. Draw a ye olde style map of Ara, including sea monsters in the water and so forth.
point 20

71. Draw a picture, fully colored, shaded, and with a background, with a gritty and depressing atmosphere of a war between the pets of Ay and Ara. Have at least half the species on either side fighting.
point 100

72. Create a new SCC species by submitting two SCCs of the founders, then release the PSDs for 1 GP to other users without any rules on the species.
point 50

73. Create a giveaway for Newbies where you give AD-rarity pets to them, the pets being in a section in your lair that the newbie can choose from.
point 10

74. Create a thread where you offer to give away 100,000 BP to the first ten people who request to have it, who are on other teams.
point 10

75. Create a thread where you offer to make full body, full drawn pictures of an Aywa or OC character, ten slots, to people who are on other teams. The pictures must be completed before the end of Scav.
point 10

76. Find someone on another team who will allow you to write a story about two of their pets falling in love (or their pet and the pet of another person who is not on your team). The story should be 1,000 words minimum.
point 10

77. Create an orimi out of used tea bags.
point 10

78. Have a complete set of site-released Human Avatar items.
point 100

79. Pretending you are a staff member for a day, write a 500-word stream of consciousness on what you would be doing onsite.
point 15

80. Pretending that your team members are trapped on an island and have very little food or water, who would get voted off the island first?
point 10

81. Team up with ONE other team to complete this task -- have a complete set of site-released items (no user custom items). Create a spreadsheet of all the items and check off the ones you have and who has it, along with the item ID of the item. Say #/# items with a link to the spreadsheet, where the first # is the number your two teams have, and the second is the total number of items. (PP)
point 100

82. Team up with ONE other team to complete this task -- have a complete set of site pets. Create a spreadsheet of all the items and check off the ones you have and who has it, along with the item ID of the pet. Say #/# pets with a link to the spreadsheet, where the first # is the number your two teams have, and the second is the total number of pets. (PP)
point 100

83. Team up with ONE other team to complete this task -- have 3,500 breedable customs of any generation that are not "change back" pets. Create a spreadsheet of all the pets and their IDs and the user ID who owns them. Say #/3500 pets with a link to the spreadsheet, where the first # is the number your two teams have. (PP)
point 100

84. Record a skype conversation between a member of your team and a member of another team, where you give the other team member something really awesome onsite that makes them squeal with happiness. This task can be a gift exchange also, to count for both teams' completion.
point 25

85. Write and compose a song related to Aywas. It has to be composed with actual musical instruments (or done on a music program), and it must have lyrics that can be sang. Upon it to YouTube. It cannot be a parody; it must be fully original work.
point 50

86. Build a life-sized plush of a quetzal (for reference, quetzals are about 20-25 feet long) using fabric, stuffing, etc.
point 100

87. Donate $100 to a charity of your choice.
point 25

88. Send a user on another team a breedable SCC pet.
point 15

89. This task should be done with a member of another team. Draw a comic (inked, colored, shaded with backgrounds) with 25 pages that shows one of your pets fighting against the other team member's pet. The comic you draw should have your pet winning. Note that each person needs to draw 25 pages for this to be completed.
point 50

90. Design a "disposable hot drink holder" for Aywas coffee that's based around a fictional coffee company on Ay or Ara. Put it around a disposable cup of coffee.
point 10

91. Collaborate with one other team to write a 75,000-word Aywas-related novel.
point 100

92. Photograph the Aywas homepage being displayed on your television screen.
point 5

93. Create a gift certificate design for Aywas.
point 5

94. Create a character sheet, with one full body colored picture and five colored headshot expressions along with a brief personality description, of five site pets as anthros or humanoids.
point 50

95. Create a page mockup of a new Aywas feature of your design.
point 15

96. Pretend you are species changing one of your customs into a Xaoc. Create the design. The best design will be created and sent to the artist as a bonus.
point 10

97. Pretend Aywas went to a paper note/coin currency instead of paws. Design some notes and coins for it.
point 10

98. "Edit" an official aywas Melo plush, giving it edits, literally - like wings, another tail, etc. The edits are up to you, but the fabric color should match the pet.
point 10

99. Create an artwork related to Aywas on paper using only coffee to paint.
point 15

100. Create ten riddles based around Aywas related words. Ask another team to solve them.
point 10

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I find this year's task list to be pretty ridiculous. There's not even many things that you can do for fun, just gritty hard work. Full color pictures, full site collections and a novel with another team, drawing over 3000 pets on one canvas.

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I find this year's task list to be pretty ridiculous. There's not even many things that you can do for fun, just gritty hard work. Full color pictures, full site collections and a novel with another team, drawing over 3000 pets on one canvas.

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And this one:

4. Design an old school virtual pet style game in Adobe Flash for Aywas where you have to feed, clean, and look after a growing Melo.
point 25

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Are they going to use the game on the site or something after the Scavenger hunt is over with?

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